- From: Sunil Mishra <smishra@cc.gatech.edu>
- Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 11:32:49 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-html@w3.org
\\ I discovered the following statement in Netscape's documentation for \\ Naviagtor 3.0: \\ \\ http://home.netscape.com/comprod/products/navigator/version_3.0/multicolumns.html \\ > Font styles - The MULTICOL tag recognizes current font status. So if you \\ > begin a bold section before the multicolumn, the text in the columns \\ > will start bold, and if you close the bold in the middle of the \\ > multicolumn, this nonbold status will continue once you leave the \\ > multicolumn. \\ \\ i.e. \\ \\ <B> bold text <MULTICOL> bold text </B> plain text </MULTICOL> plain text \\ \\ It was my understanding that SGML elements were not permitted to overlap; \\ is it even possible for a DTD to specify this behaviour? \\ \\ -- \\ Michael Seaton (mseaton@pobox.com) Netscape has never cared about SGML, and probably never will. As far as I know, that is completely broken SGML. Although Netscape never did specify this, the <font> tag could cross paragraph boundaries, such that if you put a <font ...> in paragraph 1, and put in </font> in paragraph3, you would end up with parts of paragraph 1 and 3 and all of paragraph 2 modified. I would love to see them try and write a DTD fragment for that. Sunil
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